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Welcome to LAN Party '98.
Six beige boxes, one 10BASE-T hub and a crate of Volt Cola. Sit down and frag.
This is the homepage for Saturday night in the basement. It is a real room: walk around it, sit at any free PC, and play DOOM, HERETIC, HEXEN, QUAKE, DESCENT and DUKE NUKEM 3D against whoever else is on the hub. Press Tab to get the mouse back, and click the room to walk again.
What's New
| 7 Feb 1998 | NEW |
Spectator mode: K-Rad and n00bslayer play DOOM against each other all night
The two at the PCs against the right-hand wall have stopped fragging nothing in particular. They boot DOOM, find each other over IPX, play to eight frags, look at the scores, load the next map and go again, and they have not stopped since. Each CRT shows what its own player sees: stand behind K-Rad and you watch his match, stand behind n00bslayer and you get the same fight from the other end, with the frag message, the red screen and the body on the floor. Three maps, medikits, ammo and one gun. Switch the lights off and both tubes light the wall in the colour of the fight. It is a lookalike for the demonstration and not the shipped game, so the walls are flat and nobody has a face. |
| 7 Feb 1998 | NEW |
Voice chat, with a microphone
Press Y, let the browser use your microphone, and anyone else who has joined voice can hear you. They hear you from where you are standing, or sitting: loud beside you, fading as they walk away, and gone by the far wall. Y shuts the microphone and opens it again, and Shift and Y leave. Nobody is linked to anybody until they join, nothing is recorded, and a player in voice can see the network address of the others in it. A strict office firewall may stop a link from forming. Typing still works. |
| 7 Feb 1998 | NEW |
Cans now open, and then get drunk
Taking a can of Volt Cola from the crate used to be silent until the hiss. It now has the tab lifting, the pop, the hiss, and then two swallows and a breath out once the can is up. Nobody has complained about the noise. Several people have complained about the swallowing. |
| 7 Feb 1998 | NEW |
Game cartridges, left where they were dropped
Somebody brought a bag of cartridges for the console under the TV and has not taken them home. There are grey ones on the TV stand and the shelf next to the console, one in the slot, and more on the coffee table, under it, and on the carpet in front of the screen. A few have found their way onto the PC tables. Six titles, all of them made up: Hover Rally, Snow Dash, Puck Smash, Dino Dig, Sky Pilot and Block Brawl. Mind where you step. |
| 7 Feb 1998 | NEW |
This site has a front door
Everything in this browser can now be read outside the basement as well. What's New, Games, How to Play, the Guestbook, Links and Dazza's page each have an address of their own, such as lanparty1998.com/news, and they open in any browser without walking down the stairs. The news can be filtered the same way, at /news/new and /news/fix. The old .htm addresses still work. |
More news | Bug fixes | New features Tonight's schedule
| 7:30 PM | Doors open. Pizza is ordered and will take a while. |
| Until midnight | Shooters: DOOM, HERETIC, HEXEN, QUAKE, DESCENT, DUKE NUKEM 3D. |
| Midnight | Somebody puts StarCraft on. Any PC with under 32MB of RAM says "Not enough memory". |
| 6:00 AM | The switch goes back to Dazza's dad. |
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